Supporting People on Probation Navigator : Surrey
Location: Redhill
Salary: A GBP 24,000 per annum, plus benefits
Vacancy Type: Permanent
We are recruiting for a Supporting People on Probation Navigator : full time role / 35 hours per week : Surrey
Why Work for Us?
Adults have a proven reoffending rate of 25. Forward Trust are on a mission to change that because we believe another life is possible.
We support People on Probation in Surrey to successfully complete their Probation Supervision, to stop offending, and to live their potential.
Delivering interventions and providing support so that they build relationships with their community, other services, pro social friends, families, and themselves. Building a crime free life stops the cycle of harm.
Role/Team Overview
We are looking for more people who share our vision to join our Supporting People on Probation Team in Surrey as a Supporting People on Probation Navigator. You might have worked in prisons, probation, police or the courts before. You could be a psychology graduate, life coach, counsellor or psychotherapist. You might have worked in education, social services, health, or social prescribing, maybe you were or are a foster carer. Perhaps right now are able to bring different life skills and experiences that are transferable. The important thing is that you really enjoy working with others, are good at building rapport, are passionate about making a difference, and believe that everyone can turn their life around. Join us as a Supporting People on Probation Navigator, at Forward Trust, make a difference to individual lives whilst building your career in a leading Charity who prove every day that another life is possible. We believe that everyone can live a fulfilling life, whatever their past.
Our People on Probation Interventions help adult men understand their lifestyle and associates, their family and significant other relationships, their emotional wellbeing, and how to overcome social exclusion. You will walk alongside them as they navigate the consequences of their crimes on their relationships and themselves, leave behind relationships that lead to offending, and repair and build relationships that move them Forward to another life.
In Surrey we work alongside the Probation Service within the Guildford, Redhill and Staines probation service offices. We may also be required to work alongside prison Resettlement Teams in prisons within Page 2 of 3 HMP Coldingley and HMP Highdown. A full UK driving license is desirable for this role as travel between venues is essential. A work day for you might include facilitating a group music intervention, checking on the progress of a community allotment project, meeting someone prior to being released from prison, delivering a 1:1 with a Service User experiencing family breakdown, taking someone to the Doctors for the first time in their adult life, and finishing the day taking the winning penalty in a game of football : nice shot by the way
Its important work, and with it comes responsibility. You will have close relationships with Probation Practitioners and will agree with them and your Service Users their Action Plans and interventions. These form part of your Service Users enforceable sentence conditions. Some of your clients are vulnerable in their mental and physical health, and for all of them there are consequences if they are unsuccessful. Therefore, you will make every contact matter and keep excellent records. We provide training and support, but we need you to understand and be highly motivated to engage with all aspects of this role right from your application.
Your Surrey Team is a part of Forward Trusts national Commissioned Rehabilitative Services (CRS), which we provide directly for HMPPS. The Surrey Service is part of the Personal Wellbeing umbrella where we are lead provider in 7 areas (Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Sussex, Surre